Recently Dead

Marquise Hill, New England Patriots defensive end (#91) and former LSU star player who spent much of his free time and a lot of his money helping family in New Orleans rebuild their lives in the wake of Katrina, drowned Sunday after he and an unidentified woman fell off jet skis in the swirling current of Lake Pontchartrain. He was 24. A nearby boat rescued the woman, who couldn't swim but had held onto a pylon, and spotted Hill, a good swimmer, but he disappeared in the current before he could be rescued. Neither he nor the woman were wearing life vests. Hill's body was discovered by searchers about a quarter of a mile from where he had fallen into the water. (Source)

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